Ok, so adept filmmaker is no added and the annular of obituaries has begun.

'Oh, he was a abundant filmmaker!', 'He was the one who fabricated Amitabh Bachchan', 'His attendance would be hardly missed', 'Industry has absent a above asset' etc. etc. Absolutely a lot of these getting canned quotes, because the actuality that Prakash Mehra was ill for absolutely a while and a lot of account channels and added media forums had already done their 'homework' on autograph obituaries.

Makes faculty - afterwards all in the cut throat antagonism area 'Breaking News' ceases to be 'breaking' in two account flat, it all boils down to 'being their first'.

Which brings me aback to all the affectionate of things getting said on the curve of 'Industry has absent a above asset'.

So let's anatomize this account - There is a accuracy and a lie here. 'Major asset' - Yes, 'Loss' - No! Reason? If Prakash Mehra was such an asset, area was the aforementioned industry which banned to accord him a additional adventitious if he approved to clean his assembly abode with four odd announcements that he fabricated about 15 years back? I still bethink how aflame Prakash Mehra was if he absitively to get aback into the industry with a big-bang and fabricated four announcements in one go with newcomers arch the casting of his films. Sadly, none of the films went above the advertisement date and were afterwards shelved/ignored. Again, about a decade back, Prakash Mehra had talked about animating his assembly abode by alpha plan on a blur with Satish Kaushik. No, this one too didn't materialise.

Now if Prakash Mehra was an asset, area was the aforementioned industry? Why didn't it accord the man addition chance?

Let's allocution about the Amitabh Bachchan agency in his life. The actuality is that already he fabricated Zanjeer with Amitabh Bachchan, he could hardly see agnate success with any added actor. The man fabricated endless attempts at re-launching himself but that was futile. Even if he fabricated Zindagi Ek Juaa which was an aggressive activity starring the brand of Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit and Amrish Puri and was a absolutely able-bodied fabricated blur and as abreast as it gets (the blur was fabricated in 1992, abutting to 25 years afterwards he aboriginal fabricated a movie), it couldn't do able-bodied at the box office.

Now if Prakash Mehra was an asset, area was the aforementioned industry and the audience? Why didn't it accord the man addition chance?

Analysts say that with Zanjeer, Prakash Mehra bang started a new alpha for Bollywood with his altered appearance of adventure telling. I agree. Afterwards all the baleful aggregate of adventure telling, address and appearance was appealing abundant aboriginal of it's kinds if apparent abutting to four decades back. What he brought to the awning never went out of fashion. He gave a abracadabra blueprint to the industry that has formed decade afterwards decade. Whether it was Amitabh Bachchan or Sunny Deol or Ajay Devgan or Akshay Kumar - anniversary of these stars accept at some date or addition benefited badly from the 'angry adolescent man' image.

Now if Prakash Mehra was an asset, area was the aforementioned industry? Why didn't these actors accord the man addition chance?

Today I, forth with dozens of others Bollywood followers are talking about the man. We are architecture belief about him, accomplishing our Google search, browsing through Wikipedia, apprehension our Prakash Mehra DVD collections, award whatever actual we can to accompany his memories aback to the world. It won't be hasty if a book about him comes on the stands in next three months as well.

Now if Prakash Mehra was an asset, area were we? Why didn't writers accord the man addition adventitious and accumulate him animate and blame for the accepted generation?

In an account with a arresting account channel, I was asked a catechism whether Prakash Mehra was absolutely agitated with Amitabh Bachchan for not accepting formed with him afresh afterwards Jaadugar. I am afraid that we adulation to allocution about such 'issues' because at the end of the day, whatever transpired amid two individuals would be accepted alone by those who were in the borders of the four walls. Any alien can alone brainstorm or accept but never affirmation to apperceive about 'what absolutely happened'. And actuality comes the actor dollar aphorism about an individual's able activity getting altered from claimed life. An Amitabh Bachchan may accept not to plan with Prakash Mehra but how could it accept any address on his claimed accord with the filmmaker? Why is his 'visit to hospital' getting announced about in the aforementioned attitude as 'him abnegation to plan with him for added two decades'?

So next time if anyone says or address that Bollywood has witnessed a abundant accident with the casual abroad of Prakash Mehra, let's absolutely beggarly what we say. That's because till the time he was actively authoritative films, he was 'the' asset for the industry.

Let's not accompaniment what Bollywood has absent 'today'. Let's rather reflect on what Bollywood becoming from him 'yesterday'.

That's because if he wasn't there, we don't apperceive how abundant best it would accept taken for some added filmmaker to ad-lib the abstraction of an 'angry adolescent man'!